Re: tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52, [2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23]

Christoph Lameter
2007-12-13T22:07:28Z

On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> unless i'm missing something obvious (and i easily might), i see SLUB as
> SLAB reimplemented with a different queueing model. Not "without
> queueing".

The "queue" that you are talking about is the freelist of a slab. It exist
for each slab. SLAB uses a table of free entries there. The freelist is
limited to a slab and thus the locality of the freelist is bound to
the same page which avoids NUMA locality checks.